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Right? Its so close to being wonderful, and I really like the raspiOS desktop. I think we're right around the corner from a new ARM frontier opening up. Tomorrow (today!) my experiment is a minimal systemd linux. Thanks, something in your writing reminded me of that, I had just started reading about it last night. My inspiration was the "minimum linux live" project, which of course is not really a practical start poi…
This means you can outfit a developer or student anywhere in the world with a functioning workstation for under $200, monitor, desk, keyboard, mouse, everything. We might find it somewhat anachronistic, but it really could help bring millions of people out of poverty.
The average engineering disposition might make you want for bigger, better workstation -- but you could, in fact, do 97% of engineering jobs with just X11, pdf reader, browser and a terminal. Jobs don't actually require you to run 100+ chrome tabs, install Steam, webcam in a video conference, etc. Those are there to endear you to the machine, so that part of you lives at work. The whole concept is not to the benefit of the employee.